The Basque Ecodesign Hub: Training on Circular Economy

Country
Spain
Training opportunities

Open to all universities and vocational training centers (both public and private), the main lines of action of the Basque Ecodesign HUB are:

  • Training young people, students and unemployed people about circular economy and environmental concepts and methodologies like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and ecodesign
  • Developing technical projects in collaboration with companies, mainly SMEs, for a period of six months and with the support and mentoring of experts in the field
  • Training Basque industrial companies and their technical staff
  • Establishing a system of ecodesign research and environmental monitoring in the Basque Country
  • Supporting entrepreneurs in the field of ecodesign and circular economy.

So far, the main results are: 

  • Setting up of the the Ecodesign Classroom at the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao. More than 50 companies and over 100 students participated, developing more than 100 projects.
  • Setting up of the Ideas Laboratory of the Basque Ecodesign Center, a centre for the definition of new business opportunities that incorporate the environment as a differential factor.